Uttal
US
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
- A feeling of being oppressed.
Exempel
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings [...] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves [...]
- The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
Böjningsformer
| Plural | oppressions |